William Moult

Name

William Moult

Conflict

First World War

Date of Death / Age

22/10/1915

Rank, Service Number & Service Details

Private
2128
Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
1st/5th Bn.

Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards

Not Yet Researched

Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country

LAPUGNOY MILITARY CEMETERY
I. E. 60.
France

Headstone Inscription

Not Researched

UK & Other Memorials

Not on the St Albans memorials

Pre War

William was the eldest son of Ebenezer and Tereza (née Howard) Moult of 22 St. Peter's Street, Albert Village, near Burton-on-Trent. He was born in St. Albans and was educated there and at Woodville, near Burton-on-Trent.


He was working as a Sanitary Pipe Joiner until he joined the Sherwood Foresters on the 17th of March 1909.


Wartime Service

When war broke out he volunteered for foreign service (August 1914) and went to France and Flanders with the Expeditionary Force.


William was killed in action on the 22nd of October 1915 near Trones Wood.


Acknowledgments

Derry Warners
Gareth Hughes